Mayor Adams was rightly bragging last week that subway crime is down.
But New Yorkers, just as rightly, couldn’t get too excited: Above ground, core Manhattan below Central Park is having a bloody summer.
The juxtaposition illustrates how New York’s public-safety resources are stretched thin, something Adams has never addressed with a long-term plan.
Even for a Manhattan that has gotten used to a steady drip of post-2020 crime and disorder, the news of the last five weeks has been jarring.
On June 11, just after 10 p.m., a young woman, 22-year-old Jordin Walston, was stabbed to death on the sidewalk just outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal, near The New York Times’ headquarters.
Six days later, in the early afternoon, 53-year-old Efrain Patino Guerra, helping guests find cabs at the Times Square Riu Hotel, was sucker-punched by a driver. He died three weeks later.
On June 23, on 14th Street outside Stuyvesant Town, 38-year-old Clemson Coxfield was stabbed to death in an afternoon street fight.
Barely a week after that, passersby reported a trash bag that looked like it contained a body on a sidewalk in Kips Bay. It turned out to be 31-year-old Yazmeen Williams, killed in a nearby apartment July 1.
Two blocks away and little more than a week later, on July 9, a 55-year-old man was fatally stabbed inside Times Square “supportive housing.”
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